
There's a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notor... (Full plot summary below)
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There's a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex are uncovered.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA return to form. But it still has the power to leave audiences disoriented, just as Hellman's best films Ride in the Whirlwind, The Shooting, Two-Lane Blacktop, and Cockfighter once did. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonThe final scene offers clarity, at least, if not a satisfying payoff. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenIf Mr. Hellman's movie only partly fulfills its promise as a gripping neo-noir mystery, his stylistic hallmarks lend it a singularly haunting atmosphere. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiThe first feature film from Monte Hellman in 21 years is a quirky and self-reflexive film-within-a-film mystery that whiplashes viewers with audacious inventiveness; it's both more and less than it seems. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIn its masterful use of evocative imagery and music, Road to Nowhere is flawless. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfHellman is a true artist with a vision for disorientation that carries all the way through "Road to Nowhere," but the lasting impact of the film will be up to the individual viewer and their personal appetite for cinematic riddles. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertA rabbit hole of enigmatic characters and swampy motives...Shot by shot, the film has a burnished, beautiful sheen. |
| Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz"Road to Nowhere" is a beautifully made, glorious mess. |
| AV ClubKeith PhippsThe tone and subject at times recall David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Dr.," but the approach is Hellman's own. |
| Film Comment MagazineNicolas RapoldWithout succumbing to any romance about the magic of motion pictures, Hellman imbues Road to Nowhere with a haunted yet hallowed quality. |